{"id":2240,"date":"2014-05-17T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T13:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2014-05-17T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T13:05:59","slug":"trash-or-recycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/?p=2240","title":{"rendered":"Trash or Recycle?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On trash collection day, we have two trucks that come by. \u00a0One picks up the trash, the other comes later and picks up the recycle stuff. \u00a0Earlier this week, I went for a walk down our street right after the trash pick up truck had gone by. \u00a0The full recycle bins were all still sitting out, so I had some fun just looking at the contents and speculating about how it might indicate something about the lives of the people who left them out.<\/p>\n

As I walked, I noticed some people recycled very little, and some a lot. \u00a0Some people recycled only one or two kinds of things. Some people might have a few aluminum cans in their bin and not much else. \u00a0Others seemed to recycle almost everything. \u00a0I passed one house that had set out extra bins full of paper, cardboard, cans, plastic cartons . . . \u00a0most of the stuff that would fill my trash can, they had determined to recycle, even if it meant having to find extra bins to put it all in. \u00a0It made me feel a little guilty, since we recycle very little. \u00a0Perhaps I toss out many things as trash, when they might be recycled into something valuable.<\/p>\n

A little later in the week, I was talking with a friend who had recently had some “trash” tossed into his life. \u00a0It was ugly, smelly stuff that someone had dumped on him even though he didn’t deserve it. \u00a0It occurred to me that we all have trash come into our lives. \u00a0Often, we just hold our nose and try to deal with it until we can get rid of it. \u00a0But God has called us to have a different attitude. \u00a0God has promised that He can use it to make something good if we will only let Him. \u00a0God has a giant “recycle bin” for all the trash that would come into our lives. \u00a0The question is, will we just hold our nose and live with it while we wait for the trash man to pick it up? \u00a0Or will we put it in God’s recycle bin and allow Him to use it to make something good?<\/p>\n

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On trash collection day, we have two trucks that come by. \u00a0One picks up the trash, the other comes later and picks up the recycle stuff. \u00a0Earlier this week, I went for a walk down our street right after the trash pick up truck had gone by. \u00a0The full recycle bins were all still sitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}